JUNOS and BIRD OSPF ptp netmask 0.0.0.0 mismatch problem

[Bao Nguyen]

Hello all,

I'm running BIRD 1.3.4 with JUNOS and I ran into the issue of "netmask
0.0.0.0" was seen by JUNOS as it's not being sent by BIRD on a OSPF
point-to-point link per RFC spec but JUNOS perform strict check on it.

There seemed to be quite a bit of discussions about this online [1][2] and
I'm wondering if anyone got a better alternatives then switching to link
broadcast mode?

I also looked at BIRD code, it seemed like someone have applied a patch for
a "ptp netmask" option on in April 17 to work around this issue but
upgrading BIRD is not an option at this point.

[1]
https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&enablesaml=yes&id=KB23533&max-yv=1&cat=M_SERIES&actp=LIST&smlogin=true
[2]
http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Junos-and-Junosphere/ospf-point-to-point-interface-type-on-ethernet/td-p/39375

thanks,


-bn
0216331C
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